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railway carriage containing a restaurant
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dining car

Summary

dining car ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (464 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • dining car is a type of passenger railroad car[2].
  • dining car is a type of eating and lodging[3].
  • dining car is part of railway catering[4].
  • dining car is part of Dinner Train[5].
  • dining car's Commons category is recorded as Dining cars[6].
  • dining car's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dining cars[7].
  • dining car's replaces is recorded as station restaurant[8].
  • dining car's nickname is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'boîte à ragoût'}[9].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include passenger railroad car[2] and eating and lodging[3].

Use and Application

Part of include railway catering[4] and Dinner Train[5].

Why It Matters

dining car ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (464 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . auteur-roman-nouvelles.com. auteur-roman-nouvelles.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
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    Part of → railway catering, Dinner Train
    Subclass of → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007532712905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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